More reasons why we need to join together to reunite our country:

• Bipartisanship Left Behind? No Child Left Behind "was supposed to be the one area where the embattled White House and the assertive new Democratic Congress would find common ground, thanks to the unlikely partnership between" Pres. Bush and Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-MA), Washington Post reports. "But like the rest of Bush's legislative agenda," it "has fallen victim to political deadlock, leaving a weakened president struggling to salvage perhaps his most important domestic achievement with the help of one of his toughest critics."
• America Wants Another Option: According to the latest Newsweek poll, 54% of regis. voters believe we should have a third major political party; just 39% disagree.
• Not The Bipartisan Effort We're Looking For: Spartanburg Herald-Journal condemns the "Unending pork parade": "There is $1.8 billion in pork in the military appropriations bill. So much pork was added to the water resources project bill that its cost went up 50 percent from the time it was passed by both houses to the time it emerged from a House-Senate conference committee. ... It is a bipartisan effort. Members of Congress from both parties condemn the practice, but then they do whatever they can to get their own projects approved and to make sure other members get theirs."
• Quotable: "If Americans have ever been angrier with the state of the country, we have not witnessed it" -- from a Democracy Corps strategy memo.

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